Great stuff - keep posting about your travels and you will do well here.
Two other tips:
Consider paying to boost your post into the hot / trending page - although you may not need to given the exposure you had already. And it’s a bit of a hot topic here...
Reply to the people that have commented - say thanks, answer questions, interact, upvote some people back, just be a human basically. Many people, myself included, will comment and upvote once or twice, but likely not a third time if you just post and run...
Good luck with your travels
@holbein81 I will be sharing so much more with you all. Thank you for the advice! I'll look into the boosting I haven't learned much about that quite yet. How is it a hot topic exactly?
Boosting - you can pay an account with a lot of Steem power to vote for your posts, giving them a quick uplift and getting them more visibility. There is lots of discussion around the pros and cons of doing it - and in the last couple of days one of them - bellyrub - has been exposed as a potential scam
Check this site for more info: https://s3.amazonaws.com/yabapmatt/bottracker/bottracker.html
Having said that, with the attention your posts are getting I don't think you have any need for them